KENNEDY: IF YOU WANT TO COME
BACK TO ME.
PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID THAT TO
COVID.
HE TESTED POSITIVE AGAIN, ONE OF
THE ONLY POSITIVE THINGS ABOUT
HIS PRESIDENCY AS OF LATE.
A LETTER FROM BIDEN’S DOCTOR
KEVIN O’CONNOR SAID AFTER
TESTING POSITIVE ON THURSDAY,
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY THE
PRESIDENT TESTED POSITIVE LATE
SATURDAY MORNING AND THIS
REPRESENTS REBOUND POSITIVITY.
SOUNDS LIKE A HOT GIRL SUMMER.
HOW RARE IS COVID REBOUND AFTER
TREATMENT WITH THE NEW PFIZER
DRUG POXLOVID.
I’M JOINED BY DR. JEANETTE.
THIS IS FASCINATING BECAUSE THE
PRESIDENT TESTED NEGATIVE A
BUNCH OF TIMES AND THEN HE’S
POSITIVE AGAIN, HAS SOME
SYMPTOMS AGAIN.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
IT HAPPENED WITH FAUCI AGAIN,
THE PAXLOVID REBOUND.
>> YEAH, KENNEDY.
IT’S NOT SURPRISING TO ME AT
ALL.
I’VE HAD PATIENTS THAT HAVE HAD
THIS COVID REBOUND AS WELL.
WE KNEW ABOUT THIS.
WE KNEW IT EXISTED, BUT BACK
WHEN THE TRIALS WERE CONDUCTED
LAST YEAR WHEN PFIZER CONDUCTED
ITS TRIALS, IT CAME UP WITH
ABOUT 1-2% OF PATIENTS WITH THE
REBOUND COVID SCENARIO.
I’VE HAD PATIENTS THAT HAVE IT,
AGAIN, IT’S NOT A SURPRISE.
WE THINK IT’S BECAUSE THE HUMAN
BODY’S IMMUNE SYSTEM IS NOT
EXPOSED TO THIS ANTIVIRAL LONG
ENOUGH MEANING INSTEAD OF IT
BEING A FIVE DAY COURSE OF
PAXLOVID, MAYBE SEVEN DAYS OR
TEN DAYS AND MAYBE INSTEAD OF
TWICE A DAY, WE NEED THREE TIME
AS DAY.
IT’S NOT A SURPRISE.
IT HAPPENS THE WAY THE MEDICINE
WORKS IS IT SUPPRESSES THE VIRAL
LOAD AND STOPS THE VIRUS FROM
REPLICATING BUT ONCE THAT
MEDICINE EXITS YOUR SYSTEM AND
IF THE VIRUS ISN’T COMPLETELY
GONE OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM, MAYBE
ONLY 08 OR 90 -- 80 OR 90% GONE
AND IT GET AS OPPORTUNITY TO
FLAIR UP AGAIN AND THAT’S LIKELY
WHAT HAPPENED WITH PRESIDENT
BIDEN.
IF YOU FOLLOW CDC GUIDELINE
RECOMMENDATIONS AND HE DIDN’T
NEED TO BE TESTED AFTERWARDS AND
THAT’S NOT A RECOMMENDATION BUT
HE’S THE PRESIDENT SO WHY NOT DO
IT?
KENNEDY: HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE
WANTS.
EVERYONE GAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP A
HARD TIME WHEN HE HAD VARIOUS
TREATMENTS.
THIS OF COURSE WAS BEFORE THE
VACCINES AND BOOSTERS WERE
AVAILABLE.
I DON’T BLAME THE PRESIDENT FOR
HAVING THIS REBOUND ISSUE, BUT I
STILL THINK THERE’S A LOT OF
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE EFFICACY OF
THE VACCINES AND BOOSTERS OF
WHICH HE’S HAD MANY.
IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT -- HE
AND FAUCI ARE ESSENTIALLY THE
SAME AGE.
IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT OLD
WHITE MEN WHO ARE FULL OF HOT
AIR REBOUNDING WITH COVID?
>> WELL, HERE’S THE THING, WE
NOW KNOW THAT THE VACCINES WON’T
STOP YOU FROM PICKING UP COVID
AND WON’T STOP YOU FROM
SPREADING IT SO THE BOTTOM LINE
IS WE NEED BETTER VACCINES.
NOW, I HAVE SEEN WITH MY
PATIENTS, KENNEDY, IF YOU DO GET
THE VACCINES AND THE BOOSTERS,
YOU REALLY ARE PROTECTED FOR AT
LEAST A GOOD TWO, THREE MONTHS
BUT AFTER THAT, YOUR SYMPTOMS
WILL PROBABLY BE MILD AND THE
VACCINES WILL HELP MINIMIZE YOUR
SYMPTOMS, BUT YOU’RE NOT AS
PROTECTED.
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO STOP
YOURSELF FROM PICKING UP THE
VIRUS.
IT’S STILL A POSSIBILITY.
WE JUST NEED TO GET BETTER
VACCINES, ANOTHER GENERATION OF
THEM.
>> I DON’T KNOW IF WE NEED
BETTER VACCINES.
KENNEDY: I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE
NEED AT THIS POINT.
I’M VERY SKEPTICAL ABOUT A LOT
OF IT.
I DO THINK THAT THE VACCINES ARE
A FORM OF TREATMENT, WHICH IS
FINE.
WE SHOULD BE HONEST WHEN
DISCUSSING THOSE THINGS, BUT
LET’S TALK ABOUT MONKEY POX.
HAVE YOU TREATED PEOPLE WITH
COVID AND MONKEY POX?
>> YES, BUT NOT SIMULTANEOUSLY,
THANK GOODNESS.
THAT WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY BAD
LUCK.
YEAH, HERE IN NEW YORK,
UNFORTUNATELY WE’RE THE
EPIACCEPTABILITIER OF ANOTHER --
EPICENTER OF ANOTHER DISEASE
OUTBREAK BUT IT’S NOT A BIG
KILLER LIKE COVID WAS.
25% OF THE CASES IN OUR COUNTRY
IS IN NEW YORK.
I AM SEEING, YOU KNOW, IN SOME
OF MY PATIENTS, MAJORITY OF MY
PATIENTS ARE BEN WHO ARE GAY OR
BISEXUAL AND I’VE HAD ONE FEMALE
PATIENT, AND IT AFFECTS KIDS AS
WELL.
WE HAVE A COUPLE PATIENTS IN
TEXAS THAT ARE YOUNG CHILDREN
AND IT CAN AFFECT ANYONE BUT THE
POPULATION WE’RE SEEING IT IN
MOST RIGHT NOW ARE THE MEN WHO
ARE AGAIN SEXUALLY ACTIVE WITH
MEN.
WE CAN TEST FOR IT AND TREAT IT.
WE HAVE REALLY GOOD VACCINES FOR
IT. KENNEDY: A LOT OF GAY MEN ARE ON
KENNEDY: A LOT OF GAY MEN ARE ON
PREP, WHICH IS A HIV
TRANSMISSION PREVENTION.
IS THAT LOWERING THEIR
IMMUNITIES OR IS IT ALL THE GAY
ORGIES PEOPLE ARE OBSESSED?
>> THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION.
PREP DOES NOT MAKE YOU MORE
PRONE TO PICKING UP MONKEY POX.
THE WAY YOU CATCH MONKEY POX FOR
MOST OF MY PATIENTS IS VERY
CLOSE SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT.
MY PATIENTS WILL HAVE A FEVER,
THEY’LL HAVE SWOLLEN LIMP NODES
AND BODY ACHES AND THEN DEVELOP
A RASH.
A RASH WITH THESE LARGE
PUSTULES.
ONCE THE POST-YULES BURST, IF
THEY FLUID GETS ON ANOTHER
PERSON, THAT’S HOW IT SPREADS.
AGAIN, KENNEDY, WE’VE GOT
TREATMENT FOR IT.
THE PROBLEM IS THE REASON WHY
IT’S DECLARED AN EMERGENCY IS WE
NEED MORE OF THE TREATMENT.
WE NEED MORE VACCINES.
KENNEDY: WE HAVE 170 DOSES AND
THEY DIDN’T BRING THEM OVER TO
THE COUNTRIES BECAUSE THERE
WASN’T THE URGENCY.
I’VE HEARD ONE OF THE SYMPTOMS
IS A SWOLLEN WEAN.
WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THAT?
>> YEAH, ANY PART OF THE BODY
CAN BE AFFECTED, BUT I THINK WE
NEED TO FOCUS ALL OF OUR
RESOURCES TO NEW YORK AND TO
CALIFORNIA WHERE WE HAVE THE
MOST CASES.
KENNEDY: ALL RIGHT.
WELL I’M ALL FOR IT. AS YOU KNOW, DR. JEANETTE, I’M
AS YOU KNOW, DR. JEANETTE, I’M
PROBABLY THE MOST PRO GAY GAY OR
CABLE NEWS HOST.
>> USE PROTECTION AND BE SAFE.